O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-7-3 (2019)

Persons to whom agencies may offer services

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Within the limitations of the funds available to such agencies, all agencies are authorized to offer family-planning services to any person who is in any one or more of the following classifications:

(1) Married;

(2) The parent of at least one child;

(3) Pregnant; or

(4) Requesting such services.

History

Ga. L. 1966, p. 228, § 3; Ga. L. 1968, p. 558, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Any person requesting family planning services is eligible. - General Assembly intended to make any person requesting family-planning services eligible to receive those services regardless of whether that person is married, pregnant, or the parent of at least one child. 1971 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 71-177. Minor’s ability to consent to treatment determined by pregnancy or

childbirth. - Whether a minor, unmarried female under the age of 18 years can consent to medical treatment for herself when offered in conjunction with familyplanning services would depend in each instance on a determination of whether the medical treatment was given in connection with pregnancy or childbirth. 1971 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 71-177.